Description: Further DetailsTitle: The Brain’s Sense of MovementCondition: NewISBN-10: 0674009800EAN: 9780674009806ISBN: 9780674009806Publisher: Harvard University PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 09/30/2002Description: The neuroscientist Alain Berthoz experimented on Russian astronauts in space to answer these questions: How does weightlessness affect motion? How are motion and three-dimensional space perceived? In this erudite and witty book, Berthoz describes how human beings on earth perceive and control bodily movement. Reviewing a wealth of research in neurophysiology and experimental psychology, he argues for a rethinking of the traditional separation between action and perception, and for the division of perception into five senses.In Berthoz’s view, perception and cognition are inherently predictive, functioning to allow us to anticipate the consequences of current or potential actions. The brain acts like a simulator that is constantly inventing models to project onto the changing world, models that are corrected by steady, minute feedback from the world. We move in the direction we are looking, anticipate the trajectory of a falling ball, recover when we stumble, and continually update our own physical position, all thanks to this sense of movement.This interpretation of perception and action allows Berthoz, in The Brain’s Sense of Movement, to focus on psychological phenomena largely ignored in standard texts: proprioception and kinaesthesis, the mechanisms that maintain balance and coordinate actions, and basic perceptual and memory processes involved in navigation.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 225mmItem Length: 144mmItem Weight: 458gAuthor: Alain BerthozTranslator: Giselle WeissContributor: Giselle Weiss (Translated by)Genre: MedicineBook Series: Perspectives in Cognitive NeuroscienceTopic: Society & Culture, Science Nature & MathRelease Year: 2002 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: The Brain’s Sense of Movement
Title: The Brain’s Sense of Movement
ISBN-10: 0674009800
EAN: 9780674009806
ISBN: 9780674009806
Release Date: 09/30/2002
Release Year: 2002
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Giselle Weiss
Contributor: Giselle Weiss (Translated by)
Genre: Medicine
Topic: Science Nature & Math
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Brain's Sense of Movement
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Year: 2002
Subject: Neuroscience, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Physiology, Neuropsychology
Item Height: 1 in
Item Weight: 13 Oz
Type: Textbook
Author: Alain Berthoz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Subject Area: Science, Psychology, Medical
Item Width: 5.7 in
Series: Perspectives in Cognitive Neuroscience Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
